TOPIC: Short Audio Clips for Surveys - Hosting/Streaming Advice

I'm not sure if I'm in the right forum for this but I just wanted to know if anyone had any advice or experience with using audio clips in their surveys?

Questions include what is the best way to host the files? Should they be MP3? Can the files simply be placed on the server (Linux box) or does it require specialist streaming software? Are there simpler ways to embed audio into a survey like embedding YouTube videos using simple embedded code (and hence using their server resources)? Am I worrying too much or is this kind of thing straightforward?

For information imagine that a survey has a short 30 sec audio clip and the survey maybe hit by 1000 users. It's highly likely that the audio file maybe be called by up to 300 users in anyone time (depending on when they hit the server).

Thank you

Stephen

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Additionally please note someone from the Drupal community has mentioned that jPlayer might be a good way to go. Has anyone any experience of integrating jPlayer into the latest LS? Does anyone have any easy integration instructions?

In the group description or question source where you want a player to appear, add something like this where "question_1.mp3" is the desired audio filename. These <div> elements will be hidden by CSS and automatically detected by JavaScript which will insert the player.

PS Do you happen to know how effective jPlayer is? Basically I'm just trying to ascertain the best media player solution to ensure most devices and browsers will play the media (and I'm hoping jPlayer is the correct choice).

1. How exactly do I "Create a new "audio" directory in [my] template directory" ?
2. Once it's created, is it then just a question of browsing through my audio files and uploading the one(s) that I want?

3. Sorry, which template? (and by this I suppose you mean the 'Question page', 'Load page', 'template.js', 'template.css' etc. of the current template ('copy_of_default', 'copy_of basic' etc.) ?)
4. All in the same place ('template.js', for example?) and without adding new/modifying existing code (curly braces etc.) (sorry about this embarrassing lack of JavaScript/HTML/CSS programming skills...)

Add this to startpage.pstpl after {TEMPLATEJS}

5. Does it matter which page? ('Welcome page', 'Question page', 'Load page' etc.)
6. Before, after or instead of the line of code:

<linkrel="shortcut icon"href="{TEMPLATEURL}favicon.ico"/>

(I think this is HTML code?)

Add this code to your template.js file:

7. Does it matter which page? (as above)
8. Anywhere in the 'template.js' file?

Add this to the end of template.css:

9. Does it matter which page? (as above)

Once again, sorry if the answers to these questions are standard knowledge...

I imported and ran the sample survey that you posted (limesurvey_survey_447759.lss) but the jPlayer console didn't appear (hidden?) and I didn't hear anything... (deaf as well as hopeless in coding?)

Finally (!!), Mr Spessex's questions in his post #94763 look ominous regarding my next steps in the jPlayer integration process... would answers to them be necessary for me to?

Just when you thought you were going to get a quiet weekend!

Thank you - as always! - for any help that you might be able to give me.